STINTAN'S BLOG

12/02/24

stuff

hello >_< I haven't done much since my last entry, so I'll mostly talk about the shows and games I've been into... I'm still watching Gintama as usual. I just finished the courtesan of a nation arc- it was a hard watch but I did it! I hate Sadasada so much, I just can't stand looking at him, listening to him, just being aware of his presence makes me angry lol... I thought the ending was really sweet but sad... if you've seen it ykwim... also, THANK YOU, SUGI! (ifykyk) I kept getting scared when Gintoki got hurt because I'm very attached XD- Thank you Sasaki for saving him... I'd consider this the first "scary" arc... the seeds are being planted... Sasaki is doing his little scheme... (love that guy...) I'm also still watching Dandadan, and my opinions are pretty much the same, except I think I've fully backtracked on Aira lol... I'm back to finding her annoying. I think she needs to be humbled. I hope she becomes a more interesting complex character later instead of just a stuck up mean girl rival to the main character. They imply that her mother is dead in episodee 7, which I think could be a good way to explore her character a bit more. Idk I just hope she gets better and leaves Okarun alone TwT

oh, and also, I watched mouthwashing gameplay- cool game if you like psychological horror. Very interesting. Tbh I don't really wanna get deep into my opinions on it because it has an absolutley insufferable braindead fandom, so I'll keep it breif. I love Daisuke. I think he's hot. He's gyaruo-esque in a way, I guess it drew me towards him...

11/13/24

what I've been up to lately

I've been continuing watching Gintama as usual (almost at episode 300... scared...) but I also decided to catch up on some new series... I heard about Dandadan bc it had some gyarus in it as well as aliens which is like... literally me tbh... I think I like Momo the most because she's just like me in every way... she believes in ghosts, she got bullied at school, is close with her grandma, and is a gyaru?? yo. that's basically me. Also the fact that I would totally fall for someone like okarun, in fact he actually reminds me of one of my high school crushes- her Ken Takura obsession also reminds me of my affinity for Shun Oguri XDD... Just look at her room it looks like mine...

I really like all the characters so far, they're very likable and full of personality. I love Seiko too, she has the sarcastic attitude of an older lady and she's very pretty!! She reminds me of my own grandmother, who also looked very young for her age >_< Okarun is silly too... I have a love for ghost hunting and urban exploring so this show is deifinitley my kind of thing... I didn't like that weird scene in the first episode though. What is it with anime and teenage girls in their underwear?? When will they learn you can do scenes like this without giving gooner freaks "entertainment" out of it... I've heard that this kind of stuff starts to fade away throughout the series, so I'm sure it will get better as it goes on. I also love the girl with the pink hair, at first I did't like her, but now I think she's super funny. She reminds me a bit of Teruhashi from Saiki K or Rikka from love chunnibyo... I'm also excited to see Momo and Okarun together, I'm so tired of gyarus in anime being oversexualized and only involved in sexual relationships- we can love and yearn too like any other girl!!

I also started watching Ao No Miburo, and I think I might be the only fan of it on earth- seriously, does anyone like this anime, or is it just me??? I think it's just my shinsengumi obsession talking... anyway I really love Toshi in this show... He's super cute I think they did a good job. I also think Kondo probably has autism which is pretty epic. (me making headcanons about a show with 4 episodes lmaooo) The plot is kinda confusing at times but if you already know about toshi and his friends and the shenanigans they get into then you'll probably get it- a lot of political factions and betrayals and infighting- but I always like to hear more Toshi and friends lore, as I call it... I like Nio too, he kinda reminds me of myself when I was a kid, you know, just shocked by the horrors of humanity and determined to end the world's suffering- or something of the sort. His blue eyes are kinda scary but it's okay. He's a chill guy.

and last, I'd like to talk about the live action Gintama movie... I watched it this weekend with my friends and it was pretty awesome. A lot of the actors were super cute (you already know how I feel about Shun Oguri as mentioned before) and the special effects and cgi were really funny- it literally looked like a youtube skit from 2010 in the best way possible- all the small refrences and jokes they added in were so good. I also liked the cool cgi space boats... literally awesome tech... all my friends made fun of me bc I said Shun Oguri's armpit hair was hot... They're missing out on beautiful hairy men... more for me I guess... he's actually sooo cute >///<

11/08/24

Gintoki's birthday, Halloween, and good old fashioned "Toshi talk"

I can't believe it has been two months since my last update on the official gyarutobii.neocities stintan blog. my greatest aplogies. If you follow me, your'e likely aware of the events that have occured in the last month, and to say the least, they're pretty big. First was the obvious- Gintoki's birthday was a month ago. I celebrated by making my own Gintoki artwork and watching Gintama with my friends. It was a great excuse to get together and appreciate the man I love with all my heart. >///< I love Gintoki so much, I just had to celebrate with lots of sweets that I know he would want >.<

for the occasion I also got some new Gintoki merchandise!! I love the pillow so much. I get to hug him and snuggle with him now!! I also ordered a big tapestry for my dorm wall (it's a picture of Gintoki- shirtless! lol. He's so hot. I have been agressively checking my mail waiting for it)

I also dressed up for Halloween as Sacchan again! She's my favorite to cosplay. This has been by first Halloween away from home, and it wasn't all that bad. I went out with my college roommate and we walked through the local cemetary, explored the oldest building on campus, and went to a haunted house. The haunted house was really scary, but awesome, it looked like everyone working on it had a lot of fun doing it. It was also my first time going to a cemetary on Halloween. It might sound weird, but I kinda like to go to them. They feel like peaceful bresting places to me. I like to go visit the graves of people I don't know because I imagine a lot of the older graves must not get too many visitors anymore, and I think that they deserve to get a little attention every once in a while. I like to see who is buried together, if they're with family members, etc, I think it's nice to visit graves, even if the people are strangers.

last thing I wanted to mention was the Gintama arc I just watched- I love the thorny arc so much... Toshi loves his family and his friends... I think that Toshi and his brother really did deeply care for eachother even if Toshi worried about scaring or hurting him. I like how Toshi slowly starts to open up about himself as the story goes on, especially when he becomes more nopen to being friends with Gintoki, it shows that his self confidence is improving and that he is starting to see himself as more human... It warms my heart. My lovely toshi!! I love how he wrote letters to his brother, even if he couldn't read them, and even when he was dead. Toshi is a good man. He might not think so, but I *KNOW* so. _< I can kinda relate to him in some ways- I didn't grow up in a low income family in teh slightest, but I do feel like I got started in the art industry in a less that conventional way- going to an "everyone is accepted here" type of public school rather than a prestigious art school feels like a parallel to Toshi's life for me, which is one of the reasons I feel for him a lot. Just as Kondo said, "we're all failiures and outsiders here." Thanks to my friends for making me not feel alone in my journey. It's helped me become confident in my skills. The easy way out just isn't as rewarding. I'm not giving up any time soon. and PS: thank you Toshi, for motivating me to keep going.

09/23/24

my long awaited return...

hello everyone! >_< apologies for my long hiatus... I was a bit busy with school... I am in university now. some aspects I enjoy, and some I don't. Other than that I do not have much to talk about. I have been keeping up with wearing gyaru coords almost every single day, and I am excited for the incoming winter because I love winter himekaji!! I wore my Liz Liza sweater yesterday, I love it so much and it is my favorite clothing item I own. I am hoping that I can wear it again soon.

this is my dorm room!! I have a roommate and I love her. I like my room too. Everything is cute and pink and Gintama... I feel very happy and comfortable in my room. Sadly I have not had any time to read manga and play games so unfortunatley no updates on that... I am much too busy with school. classes are very early so I can not stay up late. I am an art major by the way! I think some people at college are very kind and understanding, while others are very rude. But that just life I guess. Occasionally I compare myself to other people at college, but I have to remind myself that most people here (including half of my friends) are much older than me. Sometimes I hear my older friends talk about their life and I think 'wow, I wish I was that experienced...' which is kind of silly of me since she's nearly ten years older than me XD like of course she's going to be more experienced! I also feel embarassed about my relatively safe and moderate lifestyle... I feel like many people here live very differently than me, even the so-called "nerds." (things really arent the way they used to be. I feel like EVERYONE goes to parties and drinks and smokes-not just the "popular" people") I don't really see anything wrong with living like this, since it's your choice to do what you want with your life, but I just feel left out sometimes :') (and nervous too!! please stay safe guys!!!) It sometimes makes me feel like a poser gyaru too. But that's another topic for another day. I don't think that that type of behavior is associated with hime/amekaji gals as much so hopefully I am safe... for now... I wouldn't say I feel completely left out though. I have met people who like Gintama, Jfashion, kpop, are yumejin, etc... I don't think I'm that alone. To my small circle of college friends, thank you. You are such kind people. I enjoy living on my own because it feels like I can do whatever I want... I am living my best shojo girl life!

I like to walk around on and off campus looking for fun things to do... I bring my Gintama plushies out with me, sit alone and draw and work, buy things at the store on campus, walk around in the rain with my umbrella etc etc... It is fun. I am alone but not lonley, although I do really miss my family and my dog :,) pictures above are just things I found on campus. The store was selling kewpie mayonaise, and me being me decided to buy it and share with my roommate- I put him on fries with mayo and she hasn't gone back since XD I didn't expect it to look so cartoony just like in Gintama lol. My Toshi loves it. >_< the other pic is some cool Japanese history books I found in the library... interesting stuff... I managed to find Takasugi mentioned in one of these but I can't remember which one it was... TwT

last picture is from my first date with Gintoki in my new home :D The little shops and diners here are very cute. I feel like I have everything I need here even though it's a small town. the service here felt slow, but I think it's just different than my home state lol. People are just more patient here... There is also much less traffic here! it is much more rural than my hometown so that is probably why... you can find the rest of the pictures with gintoki on my instagram!! I brought him to do all his favorite things!! (eat sweets, gambling, and spend time with lovely girlfriend ^_^ !! bye bye!! thank you for your patience with updates!!

08/21/24

I'm moving but I have more interesting things to talk about...

because it's boring, I'll make it short, I'm moving on campus a few states away from home. I brought all my Gintokis :D That's all. I never liked when blogs get too into people's personal lives, like, I'm hereto talk about gyaru, anime, and music, idc about where I live. So I'll start with anime I guess... it's been a while since I last posted so I'll talk about what I've been watching...

I started watching Kimi Ni Todoke season 3 and I think it's still so cute!! Sawako acts like me in high school I was so excited to have my first partner I didn't know what to do x-x... I like how slow paced and soft it is, just like real young love. I also really love the detailed, sparkly style of the enviornments. It feels realistic, because everything looks beautiful when you're in love... (❤ω❤) my only criticism is why are the episodes twice the length of those in the first two seasons? I feel like a lot of the excitement behind the show was so see what cute relaxing thing the group of friends would do next, and theyre's no anticipation if they do so much in one episode. Why would they make them so long? I watched the first episode and it could easily be split in two. I have no idea why they did that...

I'm also watching Gintama, obviously... I love the diviner arc so much it is so sweet. I like Seimei he's awesome... I liked Gintoki's outfit too... I like how the families made up in the end because they both cared for Ketsuno („• ᴗ •„) I also really like it because Gintoki fought a demon just to help two guys make up and to make a girl happy... without even caring if she knew... things like this are why I love him... He is so caring and he did all that because he admired her and wanted her family to be happy... I am gushing over him so much!!

And last I want to talk about some of the music I've been listening too recently... mostly jpop, shibuya kei, Gintama ost, and 2nd gen kpop... good stuff... Lee Hiyori, f(x), KARA, snsd, After School, and Orange Caramel... all are so awesome... I think my fave 2nd gen kpop gg songs rn are Shadow, Bubble Bath, DIVA, and Love... if you can't tell f(x) is my current favorite... Their songs are so cute I like pop music from the 2000s-first half of 2010s the most!! I recently discovered some new shibuya kei and jpop artists and I need to talk about them. Meg, Chara, Hosokawa Fumie, Dahlia and HALCALI... especially HALCALI... I LOVE HALCALI!!!! Rental Dollypink Sea Anemone is such a great song I wish I found it sooner... I should have listened to more Dahlia songs... Suki Suki Suu is so good... I've never heard of Hosokawa Fumie until I heard this song but I really like her... The music video is so weird but like in a cool way. It definitley has that "strange old Japanese music video"vibe. Kinda reminds me of some Jun Togawa videos (more bc of the visual style and not the music.) HALCALI is my favorite though. Upbeat retro Japanese pop songs always make me think of Gintama for some reason? Probably because they're both things that make me happy idk. Maybe it's just my interest in them overlapping. Sakuranbo by Ai Otsuka always reminds me of Lovely Complex... it literally sounds like it could be in the anime! Very cute... I found these artists in this playlist and I'd reccomend checking it out!!

00/00/00

08/03/24 - unpopular otome opinions

to preface this, I am a relatively new otome fan. I have only played 4 games but I hold them very close to my heart. Memories of the Shinsengumi is the only Hakuoki game I have ever played, and I do not yet own Edo Blossoms or Kyoto Winds. (but I will one day...) Understood? okay. Everyone is going to hate me for this but... I don't like Chikage. Cancel me if you want, gen z. It's just my opinion./j I'd imagine he's much more likable and interesting in the 2 main games, and I think if I played those I might like him more, but in Memories of the Shinsengumi I can't stand his corny ass. Every time he starts saying some edgy deep stuff I want Toshi to hurt him. "My sweet Toshi... please save me from this strange man..." In short I do not like a blond man talking to me like that! I don't understand why he's so popular based on what I've seen so far. He is mean to your friends in the game I played, and that's an immediate red flag for me. I don't like how he's always trying to kidnap you like leave me alone dude >:( let me do what I want!! I never understand how people like the male leads like that. Chikage isn't that bad, but I know some can be mean, creepy, and borderline abusive and I don't understand the appeal. Cold should not mean mean, flirty should not mean creepy, and "bad boy" characters should not be murderer criminals with no redeeming traits that your'e expected to fall in love with. Not judging though. If that's your sort of thing that's okay. I just don't personally understand it.

07/28/24

healing is cool!

I remember a year ago when I first read the Gintama spider arc and thought, "I have felt like Tsukuyo does before." the reaction was almost immediate because I could recognize it so easily. The story I'm about to tell is a bit heavy, so I'd just like to put a disclaimer here that it miiighhttt be triggering to some people, so if you're not comfortable with it, I'd reccomend just vreading a different blog post. Still here? cool. Anyway, I remember immediatley after hearing about Jiriya and Tsukuyo thinking, "wow, I knew someone like Jiriya. and they didn't treat me very well." and after starting to watch it, I guess I was reintroduced to those feelings. It always made me especially sad the way that she grew up. When I was younger (middle school to be exact), I had a friend who treated me pretty badly. They were very manipulative, and likely didn't like me for my personality, but more of just the vague concept of me. The idea of someone they could use and bend to their will. They wanted an ideal companion that didn't exist in real life. A standard that was unattainable. And if I stepped out of line, wanted to stop talking, wanted to spend time with other people over them, then they got extremely upset and guilted me into staying with them. Not a fun experience for me. If you've watched Gintama, you can probably make the connection.

Something I especially could identify with was how Tsukuyo 'gave up her life as a woman.'I grew up having trouble fitting in with traditional feminity at that age, and I had bad self image and kinda never really felt like a typical teenage girl. I felt like I coud never have a close relationship, or spend time with friends or do anything that is seen as part of teenage girlhood because I was always focused on doing what this person wanted. It sucked. But like Tsukki, I know good people now. Those people are real friends to me. (if you're irl friends with me and reading this right now, congrats!! you guys passed my test. You're real ones.) I haven't fully got over this until recently, and it's to the point where I feel a lot more comfortable talking about it, and even joking about it sometimes. I'm glad. Healing is good. It's a slow proccess, but good. So while I highly doubt Tsukki ever cried over an internet friend while listening to hyperpop, I think she'd understand what I was going through. Life is good now. Hope I can find my own Gintoki some day.

07/13/24

???

I've been staying inside a lot recently. Not really because I want to, but more because I lack the resources to be able to go out and do things on my own. I don't have a car, and I don't have the slightest idea how to drive, so it's mostly resticted me to sitting in my room all day. I will do my nails, watch a movie, maybe take a bath. I watch Gintama a lot, I usually stay up late to be able to talk to my friends about the episodes, because they make me hapy, and I have lots of things to say about them. The nails I was wearing this week would not stop falling off, I think I will change them to longer ones. It is frusturating. Today I wore my cutsom Gintoki shirt, it makes me smile because every time I see my own reflection I see him too. I haven't touched hakuouki in a while. maybe because it makes me sad, I guess I'm just scared of losing my Toshi again. Pushing that save button feels like I'm betting my life on it. I know I can always start a new save file, but it feels like a waste of my time without Toshi. It's beginning to be that time of day where I start to feel tired for absolutely no reason (2-4). I think it's some sort of side effect from high school, since I used to get home around this time. I think I will sleep until 4, shower, make something to eat, and watch Gintama in my room, which isn't particularly exciting, but it's something to do. I live my life like an isolated shoujo girl. I do simple tasks and the small things are enough to make me happy. Just listening to lamp and drawing in my bed is good enough for me. after I watch Gintama, I might try to play Ikemen Sengoku for a bit, and then maybe continue my Gintoki fanfiction I was writing. I don't ever plan on publishing it anywhere. I have shared the first few parts with some friends, but now I think it would be best to keep it to myself, because it is very dear to me. It feels like it's just between me and Gintoki that way. My desperate need to leave my house has resulted in me contacting serveral people, though it seems that I will not be able to go anywhere other than my room until tomorrow when I will visit a friend's house. I think I will go Randonauting next week. I want to find something interesting. I know some people have found very scary things using Randonautica, but I don't believe in all the conspiracies. I think it's just confirmation bias. If you expect to see something weird, and you see something weird, you'll think it's not a coincidence. That's just how the mind works. I'm hoping to find some more interesting places in my neighborhood, Because I feel like I've seen everything around here already. That's all. Will update soon.

07/12/24

graduation, and etc

I graduated high school about a week ago. Not much to say, but I'm glad I'm done with it. Like most people I didn't love high school too much, I found it mostly super stressful and a toxic enviornment full of people who weren't willing to try to understand me. But it's over!!!! So that doesn't really matter now. It was super hot outside and I felt exhausted after, the ceremony was a few hourss long, and I just felt gross and sweaty the whole time. One of the positive parts of this experience was my ita grad cap- My friend helped me make the pins. I expected them to be bigger so I originally was going to cover the entire thing, but since they were small I decided to only cover half of it. I was very happy with it, it was nice to have my little Gintokis with me the whole time. When graduation was over, I actually reused the pins on my itabag (which I might post somewhere later...)

you can see my dog in the picture above. She's a little Chihuahua.

On 4th of July, I tried my best to get a picture of sugi with the fireworks, because I know that they make him happy. There are a lot of trees where I live, so it was kinda tough, but I managed to snap this photo, and I think it looks pretty nice!

06/27/24

Prom + new Gintama plushies

Just a few days ago was my high school senior prom... It was fun!! I'm kinda weird about parties... I like them, but I don't like them... I think it really depends on the type of party and who is there. I like to dance but I don't like interacting with a lot of people. I didn't have an actual prom date so I edited in Gintoki... I went with a group of my friends though. I picked my dress based on some old Japanese hostess pictures- they always wear these long fancy dresses and I thought they were so pretty! I found some pictures of a hime gal model in a layered dress like mine, and I loved the color so I decided to buy it. It was perfect and so unique, no one else had one like it.

I brought my little Gintoki plushie to accompany... he was a great plus one!! ＼(≧▽≦)／

last but not least is my new Gintama plushies!! My mom got me the Toshi as a gift and I bought myself the Gintoki. The Toshi is so cute!! Now that I have the sitting Toshi, sittimg Gintoki, and Sitting Takasugi, I have completed the collection. they are all so cute and some of the softest ones I own. I love how they all sit on their own... quite cute... I watched the episode where Toshi and Okita get trapped together and it reminded me how fond I am of Toshi. I felt bad for him!! Poor Toshi! I like when Toshi gets nervous because he makes silly faces and his soft side shows (*/ω＼) I still for bad for him though... The Toshi plushie came with a tiny Toshi figure, a pin (which I put on my Toshi-themed sweatshirt) and a coaster with Kondo, Okita, and Toshi. The Toshi figure is covered in mayo it's so silly... He was only $12 I can't believe I got the other things for free... they are all so cute. The Gintoki plush has the outfit that he wore in the Final movie... I bought it for myself as a graduation gift because that arc and the plush mean a lot to me. It came with a little Gintoki keychain that I put on my phone. The Gintoki in that specific outfit always evokes a sense if meloncholy in me. Bittersweetness. I guess the themes of the movie just kinda connect to me considering it's such a transitional time in my life. Feels weird to be done with high school, but I'm not complaining. Good riddance! -Stintan

06/19/24 - recent updates and why I skipped a Gintama arc

I'm finishing high school soon!! My final day of class was about a week ago. We ended up not doing much and mostly just hanging out outside. I brought all of my Gintama plushies in that day, so I thought I'd take a picture with it. As of today, I only have one exam, prom, and the actual graduation left. For graduation I want to make an ita grad cap covered in Gintoki pins!! My friend is going to help me with it, but I think eventually I'll end up using the pins on a bag. I want to keep them there for graduation, but once I'm done I won't need them on there anymore. Second pic is me when I went to play mini golf with my friends! Notice the little Gintoki plush? The mini golf place also had an arcade inside, and they had an old DDR machine!! I'm not very good at it, but I love it so much because I love parapara and Eurodance music. I started listening to Eurodance, Trance, Eurobeat and Bubblegum Dance a lot more after that because I was reminded of how much I love it!

I should get to what I mentioned in the title- yes, I did in fact skip an entire arc of Gintama. Not sure if it 100% counts, since I read it in the manga, but I didn't watch a whole 5 episodes because of it. If your'e wondering which one it is, it's the one with the ghosts and the jojo refrences-honestly reading through it just annoyed me and I didn't want to have to go through it again. I don't like seeing Gintoki be bothered so much. I want to see a happy Gintoki. So I kinda just... didn't watch it because of how frusturating it is. If you've ever watched one of those spongebob episodes where they just hurt and annoy Squidward the whole time? If you have it's like that.

and finally the last thing I wanted to talk about was mobile otome games!! Right now I'm playing Samurai Love Ballad (which I haven't touched in FOREVER), Love365 (which I only downloaded to play one of the stories because Gintoki's VA was in it...) and Ikesen which I have been giving most of my attention to lately... I like Nobunaga I'm starting to get really attached to him now lolll He's weird sometimes but also very cute sometimes. I hope to play the game even more and maybe be able to participate in some of the events soon!

This picture greets me every time I open the app... His smile mocks me...

On a completely unrelated note, I will be joining artfight this year!! my username is the same it's just GyaruTobii I would love it if you could follow me! I'm on team Stardust!! I can't wait to start!

06/10/24

Hakuoki (SPOILER WARNING!!) and being a gyaru yumejoshi

hello lovlies! I have been playing a lot of Hakuoki latley, and I ended up at the final chapter. Turns out during my first playthrough I picked a few of- scratch that, ALL of the wrong choices, since I ended up with everyone except Chikage (who I don't care for much) dead, missing, or sick. I know they're just game characters, but it makes me sad, because the choices I made are what got them there. (╥﹏╥) When Chikage told me Toshi had died, I got so angry I literally threw my ds so hard the cartridge came out. (＃`Д´) (don't worry, it was fine lol) I was so upset I didn't bother saving the file or finishing the game. I just immediately started a new save file and played until I got my Toshi romance points up!! (´,,•ω•,,)♡ (what I call a "big Toshi win") I am content now... this time I have practice and I will try super hard to win Toshi's heart!!

on an unrelated note, I wanted to talk about what it was like being a yumejoshi otaku as well as a gyaru. It feels weird, sometimes I feel like I'm the only one, since most otaku girls wear girly kei fashion. I have my Gintama itabag, my Gintoki collection, and dozens of cute shoujo manga style drawings of me with gintoki, but sometimes I feel a little left out since I don't "look" like one. It's probably just imposter syndrome but I'm curious if there are any other gyaru otaku out there. signing off, -stintan.

06/05/24

Toshi talk

this week, I watched the Gintama episode where Matsudaira's daughter falls in love with Toshi. Such a sweet episode, it's so cute. I love it when Toshi shows his soft side, I just love him!! I like that he started to fall for her too when she wasn't put off by his love of mayonnaise... Honestly it doesn't really bother me either, I don't understand why girls would turn him down over something like that. I totally understand why girls like him so much. He's super cute and he has a kind heart, even if he keeps it hidden. I feel that Toshi seems to really care for the women in his life, and he doesn't want them to get hurt. He didn't want Mitsuba to be with him because he would always be in danger, and he wanted he wanted Matsudaira's daughter to be happy, he is really so sweet.

pic above is my sweet Toshi. I just wanted to talk about how much I love him!! (´ ∀ ` *)

06/05/24

06/02/24 - recent co*des, cosplay, and other stuff

hello lovlies!! how are you? I haven't posted in a while, I thought that an update was required lol. I've been so busy with school since I will be graduating high school and stuff so yeah... I wanted to share some of the pictures I took at Cradlecon in my sacchan cosplay so yeah... Here's me!! I'm holding my Toshi and Gintoki plushies in the picture.

after I went with my friends, we stopped to get dinner and ice cream. I got french fries and asked for mayonnaise for Toshi. I also saw a Toshi cosplayer but I did not get a picture, unfortunately... (ಥ﹏ಥ)

here are some of my recent co*des! one himekaji and one rokku. I was thinking a lot about Kurama and jrock and listening to DOES a lot so it made me feel like a bangyaru lol... (japanese slang for jrock fangirl)... I thought the Kurama shirt was perfect, he is my favorite in Kamihaji. I kept seeing rokku gals wearing the aviator goggles and it gave me the idea to wear my own. I never expected to be wearing them for a regular outfit since I only bought them to cosplay as my sona. Himekaji code I just wore to go pick up my prom dress (hint for a future post...) btw, if you look close, you can see the new Gintoki sticker on my phone!! My friend got it for me :)

and to end the post, I'd like to mention how I started playing Ikemen Sengoku again!! Honestly I find this game super corny and mostly only like it as a joke, but some of it can be genuinely entertaining. It's a guilty pleasure. I'm going for the Nobunaga route, and if you know the game you'll know why (If you don't, it's because he shares a va with Gintoki... lol) Honestly I find him a bit annoying at times, but it's worth it to be able to pretend it's Gintoki saying those things... I'd say my other favorite characters are Shingen and Masamune, who's routes I'd also like to play one day. One of my biggest complaints is all the microtransactions in the game. I wish I could just buy the game for $5 at the start and then get everything. Well, at least I have a google play card now, so I should be okay. Bye bye for now!! ( ´ ω ` )ノﾞ before I leave I'd like to share my recently created instagram account. Don't worry, I will not be quitting blogging and moving to insta!! I will just start posting more pictures there rather than on my blog. I am planning on posting my art, itabeya, and gyaru pics on there, bur that does not mean that those things will be excluded from the site in the future. I want to keep the site as my main outlet for creativity.

05/22/24

exploring old Japanese Gintama fansites

hello sweeties!! Today I fell down an interesting rabbit hole of old yumejoshi/female run Japanese Gintama sites. They're pretty neat. First one I found was a pixel art site that was linked to a blog (both of which have unfortunately been inactive since 2009 :()

the pixel site itself is super awesome, apparently the woman who ran both sites was a mother named Keiko who had a son in kindergarten (I got all this info from the blog) She appears to have been a pretty big fan of Gintama, and a pretty good artist as well, judging by her pixel art and the Takasugi drawing below I found on the blog.

This site was super hard to look through, a ton of the images were completely gone so I had to look at the archived version and wow. There was so much more stuff there. The screenshots from above are both from the archived version. The last post on the blog was Keiko showing off the slime she made. (pretty strange way to go out, huh?) I would reccomend looking around the archives of this blog as it's pretty cute. Keiko seems to have used this blog as a personaly diary to document her kid's schooling and her interests in shonen manga and television. Makes me wonder what Keiko is up to now...

I ended up finding a ton of other Gintama related sites that were linked on Keiko's site, including this one which I think is some sort of fansite search engine or directory of Gintama fansites (?) I used a translator to read most of these pages, but it didn't always work. Many of the fansites linked on these directories are dead links now, which makes me sad. I found a lot of different Gintama fansites, some with what I think were interactive otome-style browser games (I REALLY wanted to play these... unfortunately they were not archived...), some with fanfiction (esp reverse harem/x-reader type of stuff) and even some websites with ship art.

example of one of these types of websites above. Seems to be a website for yumejoshi like myself. Specified as "for women" and appears to be what we in the western internet would call "fluff fanfiction" from the description. Again, dissapointed that so little archives of these exist. I would have loved to see them. Unfortunately a lot of these websites contain R-18 yaoi content which I am not particularly fond of... so I had to avoid many of the ones that were archived because they had that sort of thing (no hate to mlm ships... I just don't want to see nsfw art lol)

and finally, a screenshot of another fansite/fanwork search engine. Super cool layout, and the translator worked on this page too!! I would highly reccomend checking out these sites, as they're a relic of the past and I think they deserve some attention I leave the link to Keiko's page which has links to all other sites mentioned in case anyone is interested. Good luck on your browsing journey.

05/16/24

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!

YAAY!!!!

As of today I am officially 18 years old... this is crazy. I can't believe I'm technically a full grown adult now. weird. I'm in school writing this right now lolll.I brought some strawberry milk with me today and I already drank it all... it got warm really quickly and it was kinda annoying but still awesome.

on a completely unrelated note, I just watch the Gintama arc with Okita and Mitsuba... I love it so much. As someone who has recently lost someone important to them, it was very impactful. I really love the relationship between Toshi, Okita, and Mitsuba. The whole thing makes me love Toshi even more , and I think I'm starting to like Okita a lot too. Every time I listen to this song, I think about Toshi and how he felt about Mitsuba. Good stuff. really good stuff...

Pic above is Gintoki, Toshi, and the strawberry milk at school. To end today's blog, I'd like to announce that I will be attending Cradlecon in Garden City at the Cradle Of Aviation Museum! I will be going on saturday, if you see someone dressed as Sacchan from Gintama that's me!! Feel free to say hello!!(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)

05/13/24

Gintama collection + local sakura festival

hello lovlies!!! recently (and by recently I mean like 3 weeks ago...) I attended a local sakura festival in my town. It was really awesome and genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen. My favorite part was the kendo demonstrations and THE ONE GIRL WHO REOGNIZED MY COSPLAY THERE... if you're reading... hi... I was sacchan btw... I ate noodles there and they were really good, there was a cosplay photoshoot and show and the photographer was so funny lol... All the people there were so nice and someone there had a booth with a ton of old anime and manga magazines. (pic is my collection of Gintama trinkets... it's kinda unrelated but I wanted to include it).

They had an old copy of an issue of Margaret (ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOJO MAGAZINES!! :D) I didn't recognize the idol group on the cover which tempted me to look them up when I got home and they're pretty good! I listened to Love Bias and thought it was pretty awesome. I don't listen to many jpop boy groups but I am trying to get more into them so TwT... unfortunately the only manga I recognized from this issue was Switch Girl (which I want to read a lot bc the mc looks gyaru-ish...), but it doesn't really matter because I still really loved all the art and the layout and design of the whole thing.

in addition to the Margaret issue, they also has some old Newtype copies from the 2007-2012 era and they had a TON of Gintama stuff it was so cool. I want all the stuff in those ads so much!!! :,D Especially the Toshi figure... he's so cute... (/▽＼*)｡o○♡ The episode in the third pic makes me so mad lol... but Gintoki is so cute that it doesn't really matter. Last is the fanart submissions which I LOVEEEEEE OMG they give me so much old school anime fan teenage girl from 2009 vibes and I LOVE ITTTT Literally so cute kinda artstyle envy tbh.

last pic is me cosplaying as sacchan!!! I made the cosplay myself and sewed it by hand. It was super fun and I love to cosplay her but the scarf kept strangling me... o(TヘTo) that's the end of the entry! next post will be an update on the cosplay and my next convention plans! (^人^)

05/01/24

I'm a... "webmaster?"

honestly I don't even feel worthy of calling myself a "webmaster." like, at all. I'd rather just be called "a girl who has a website," because that feels a lot more natural. I see all this nonsense about "taking back the old web" and tbh I don't feel like I'm doing anything, and I'm okay with that. This site is not claiming to be revolutionary, and neither am I. I am no more than what I decide to show to the world. Recently, I've seen people becoming Increasingly upset with neocities and it's userbase, which I find unfair. If I'm being honest, I'd say, no, I don't really like websites that are just glorified carrds, and people becoming overwhelmingly obsessed with their follower counts, but in the end, it's their website. Not mine. Who am I, or anyone for that matter, to tell you what to do with your website? Also another thing that's been bothering me lately is my use of templates. Yes I use layout templates, heavily modified, with full credit. That is what they are there for. People make them so beginners like me can use them. It's a fact that it takes more time and effort to code one by hand (this is just an objective fact) but I don't think we should completely ridicule sites that use them just because it's easier. This site wasn't made to display my "coding skills," nor was it made to Accurately represnt the old web. This website is not meant to be professional, not meant to be a form of social media, not meant to be any kind of grand statement, and definitely not meant to be anything more than a silly little place where I can talk about my interests and share my art. in the end, it probably doesn’t matter all that much. One very obvious thing about me is that I have possibly the worst case of imposter syndrome on the planet. I never felt like a real gyaru, a real artist, and definitely never felt anything even close to a real webmaster, and I'm not claiming to be. Every time I get into a new hobby or interest, they'res always a voice in my mind telling me I'm not good enough for it. But it's never stopped me, and I won't let it stop me now. Sorry for venting a little bit in the end it's just been bothering me recently. next post will probably be anime magazine scans. See you later. -stintan

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